[mythtv-users] Size of the MPEG-2 files vs. TiVo & TV output quality

Jeremy Palenchar jeremyp at mindspring.com
Mon Sep 1 02:08:55 EDT 2003


So,

1) Why does Tivo use 1 gig per hour of recorded TV and the MythTv w/ WinTV
250 use 4gig per hour? This is troublesome to me. Shouldn't we be able to
get as good or better compression?

2) I have read posts that output quality to the TV can be problematic. I
have seen recommendations for the GeForce 4 cards. Any specific reason for
this? Any specific recommendations on a cheap implementation of a card that
produces good results?


Thanks!


-Jeremy



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